Allah-Las
Ever since Allah-Las released their self-titled debut album in 2012, I’ve been listening to their music a lot. Driving in a car in summertime just isn’t the same without their ...
Courtney Marie Andrews
Whenever musicians that I like announce shows in The Netherlands, I tend to keep an eye on who their support act will be. Especially when they’re bringing someone with them ...
The Wood Brothers
‘When I die, I wanna be sent back to try, try again.’ (From: Neon Tombstone) It’s one of many beautiful sentences in the lyrics by Nashville-based group The Wood Brothers, ...
Hanna Leess
On the same day I filmed Parker Ainsworth‘s session at the old Tivoli Spiegelbar in Utrecht, Hanna Leess – who was touring with him – also played a session. Lucky ...
Parker Ainsworth
Every week a lot of musicians get in touch asking for a session. Although I have to turn down most of them, I do like getting these emails and listening ...
Hiss Golden Messenger
One of my more recent musical addictions, has been the music of Hiss Golden Messenger. Having released a lot of albums since 2008, it wasn’t until February this year that ...
Jay Nash
Back in 2010 I filmed a session with three American songwriters; Joey Ryan, Jeff Klein and Jay Nash. In September 2013 Nash was touring again in The Netherlands and we ...
William Tyler
If you don’t know the Dutch booking agency Belmont Bookings, you should check their roster, because it’s an overload of great acts to go and discover. One of them is ...
Small Houses
If I’m honest, I didn’t know anything about Jeremy Quentin, a.k.a. Small Houses, until I received an email and started listening to his songs. Usually I’ll have been following musicians ...
Kevn Kinney
In 2012, Tim Knol toured in the United States, together with the American songwriter Kevn Kinney of Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ fame. Earlier this year Knol founded his own record label ...
Jason Falkner
The first time I heard of Jason Falkner was when I was talking to Anne Soldaat about five years ago. Soldaat was flying to Los Angeles to record what would ...
Dead Fingers
If I’m completely honest, I didn’t know Alabama duo Dead Fingers for long when I heard they were going to be touring in The Netherlands this Spring. I knew enough ...
Ben Weaver
In Middelburg, in the far South West of The Netherlands, there’s this guy called Tonnie Dieleman, who organises intimite live shows called ‘Avonduren‘. One day he called to ask if ...
Lori Lieberman
Once upon a night, Lori Lieberman saw Don McLean play live and wrote the poem ‘Killing Me Softly’. The rest is history. But if you think that’s all to it, ...
Damien Jurado
In 2009 I filmed a session with the amazing Damien Jurado for another project called The Canal Sessions. It was a boat ride to remember, so when he returned to ...
Willard Grant Conspiracy
In the fall of 2009, Onder Invloed’s good friends Paul Tasker and Iona MacDonald of Doghouse Roses were touring Europe as support and bandmembers of Willard Grant Conspiracy. In September ...
Jay Nash, Joey Ryan & Jeff Klein
Last Wednesday, Dutch booking agency Friendly Fire organised a showcase at UROCK Cafe in Utrecht. At the same place where the Onder Invloed nights took place for the last 1,5 ...
Tim Easton
In November 2009, Tim Easton toured The Netherlands with Tim Knol-drummer Kees Schaper on drums. He played a support show for Anne Soldaat at Tivoli de Helling in Utrecht, when ...
Damien Jurado
In 2009 and 2010, I temporarily ran a side project called The Canal Sessions for which we filmed sessions with musicians on a boat on the canals of Utrecht, the ...
The Sleeptalkers
I love old photographs. Just a thought that came up last week, so I decided to try and make this session look like one. Because watching it brings up the ...
Brett Dennen
This session was recorded almost six months ago, in the backstage of Rotown in Rotterdam. Good friend and UROCK Cafe-owner Pieter Pin had been telling me to record a session ...
The Redwalls
The Redwalls from Chicago brought their colorful revolution to The Influences, with covers of Velvet Underground, The Beatles and Bob Dylan.
Steve Savage
It had been a long time since I was as much under influence as when I went to the Tivoli on last Friday night with Lukas Batteau and Steve Savage. ...